“SLEEPING BEAUTY"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 268, 14 November 1935, Page 11

“SLEEPING BEAUTY"

DOCTORS BAFFLED TIIR.EE YEARS’ SLUMBER APPEARANCE NOT CHANGED SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. ’5. Patricia Maguire, the modern “sleeping bvautv,’’ ended her 1313th. day a helpless victim of lethargic encephalitis, her condition being neither better nor worse. As in the fairy tale, tQie passing i years have failed to leave their mark 1 on the physical loveliness of the i Chicago surburban Oak Park “sleep ’ ing beauty,” who has suffered from a baffling illness for more than three and a-half years. < Mrs. Peter Miley, the girl's mother said: “There has been no change ' lor the better or worse in Pat s condition in recent mouths. But you ‘ know the old saying, ‘Where there’s life thvre's hope,’ and Pat’s still J alive. And if you had to move her ’in * bed when she didn’t want to be moved 4 you would realise how strong she is. ' Pat seems younger in appearance than , when she first became ill. In some j ways she seems lovelier. Her continued J youthful, healthful appearance is one of the things that have puzzled doc- T tors.” • ■ ( A pretty, vivacious girl Pat was back in 1932 before she, then 21 years t old, fell a victim on February 15, to j that strange malady that has failed to respond materially to medical treat- 1 me nt. Missouri’s encephalitic sleeper, Mrs. A. Chandler, crept closer to wakefulness in Kansas City, but remained far from the healthy, normal person she appeared before she was stricken in Kansis City seven months ago-. Her physician said Mrs. Chandler, wife of a Kansas City landscape artist and florist, was “showing comtinued signs of improvement,” but declined to elaborate. _________________